Port Protest Planned

DIGEST

October 22, 1988|Staff reports

A rally will be held at noon today to protest the construction of a turning notch for container ships near a manatee preserve at Port Everglades.

The ``nudge the notch`` rally is being organized by several environmental organizations: the Audubon Society, Sierra Club, Save-the-Manatee Foundation and Broward County Environmental Coalition. The groups are appealing for the public to attend.

Opponents say the turning area, which would require a 200-acre container storage area and six gantry cranes to be built, will endanger the manatees and mean the destruction of rare mangrove trees.